I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson